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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:52:15 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_time.c
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On Wednesday,  7 April 1999 at 17:41:10 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :
> :Does this mean that if somebody accidentally sets the time to the
> :wrong year, the only thing he can do to fix it is to reboot in
> :single-user mode?  I'm not convinced that this is a gain.  What do
> :people doing Y2K tests do?
> :
> :Greg
>
>     securelevel > 1  == clueful sysadmin != clueless sysadmin who sets the
>     date manually rather then use 'ntpdate'.  :-)

It's difficult to run ntpdate or xntpd on a stand-alone system.

Greg
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